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...do you love or hate the very fact that they exist?

Are you neutral towards the subject?

Have any other ways you like figuring out people's personalities?

Discuss.

I hate that goddamn trademarked pseudoscience bullshit with the fire of a billion suns.

It's fun in a similar vein to Astrology. I don't take the while thing seriously, but it's fun to take the quiz and read a thing that I find relatable. Also fun to compare results with friends.

I know some people take the stuff seriously and to heart, so I don't engage too much. As fun as it can be to talk to friends and exchange/compare our personality traits, etc I do find myself getting irritable when others apply these anecdotes to everything ("my favorite color is orange, that's soooooooo ENFP Leos!!!!")

It's fun when you take it lightly like astrology, it's awful when you make your "personality type" your actual personality.

In my last workplace they made us took this fucking test and share the result on a public excel sheet.
I'm a "logician" INTP type (I've take the test numerous times during the years for various reasons and I'm almost always that, like 90% of the time). Problem is: I don't look like it because I force myself not to appear like the very introverted person I am.
Some people in my workplace tried to game shit because "it can't possibly be true because you're always one of the happiest person in the office". I couldn't explain to them that it was actually my depression and trauma that made me try to mask my introversion and general strangeness.
Fuck that test and people taking it seriously, man.

OP here.

I have been assessed as an INTP as well. ( Usually in the context of trying to find a good job. )

I don't mind being classified like that, provided it is used as an extremely rough guideline.

I feel bad that some stupid jerks felt that you had no right to your personal privacy. They had no right to do that to you. I understand why you view Meyers-Briggs in an extremely poor light.

It's pseudoscience bullshit like astrology, people can play around with it for fun but ffs do not take it as some solid 'fact' of who you are because it's meaningless.

I've never been a big fan of the MBTI. I've tried lots of different MBTI tests over the years, but none of the types ever feel like a particularly good fit for me, and none of what I've read about any of the types has ever been illuminating. I've just never had a moment with the MBTI where I've thought, "Wow, I never realized that," or "That articulates something about me exactly," or "God, that's such a good explanation."

As far as my type goes, I think I tend to type as an INTP most often, or sometimes an INTJ.

I do really love the Enneagram, though. Everything I said about the MBTI, the reverse has been my experience with the Enneagram. I found it extremely accurate (for me), illuminating, fascinating, and complexly articulate, right from the get-go.

I don't view it as some kind of "higher ordering principle" though. I just view it as a system for helping extrapolate and interpolate from a set of given information. It's predictive and correlative. It's also, of course, not something that should be pushed onto others if they aren't interested.

Like, understanding that my mother is a Type 2 genuinely helped me improve my relationship with her. I'm a Type 5, and the way she and I approach the world is often very at odds. The enneagram helped me comprehend her perspective and her priorities and desires more than I previously had, and from there I was more likely to be able to recognize the things that would really upset her, and the things that would make her feel seen and valued.

My father is a roaring, unambiguous Type 7, and he loved the enneagram instantly just like I did. A friend of mine is unambiguously a Type 3, and she was also stunned by how accurate and perceptive the description was. On the other hand, I have another friend who has never been able to decide whether she's a Type 1 or a Type 4, and her feelings about the Enneagram are similar to mine about the MBTI--she just doesn't find it particularly illuminating. A third friend typed as a 6 but was evidently reluctant to go any further with it, and a fourth friend Typed as a 9 but rejected that type and showed a preference for Type 5.

Privately I have my own thoughts about the latter three friends' enneatypes, but given their lack of interest, I let them be and didn't bring it up anymore. Because it's not some higher ordering principle they need to let into their lives or something; it's just a fun intellectual exercise! And if it's not fun for them, then I'm not going to inflict it on them. (FWIW, I had all of them take an enneagram test way back when I first got into the enneagram in my early twenties--a painfully long time ago now. These days I tend not to even bring it up with people because I know how a lot of people feel about these sorts of things, but back then we were all in our early twenties and we knew each other well and we were all fairly open to this stuff to having them take the test didn't seem glaringly obnoxious at the time--though looking back I think possibly one friend felt like it was and was just being nice about it.)

Anyway, these days I mostly just use the enneagram for typing fictional characters, which I find very fun and will likely never get tired of. XD

Sorry for the tl;dr. This comment, brought to you by what happens when see a post you have passionate opinions about twenty minutes after taking your Ritalin!

Ditto, enneagram is great

The MBTI system is fine and gets a bad wrap. It's obviously not scientific or rigorous but it can still be a useful ad hoc ordering system for different types of personalities. If people use it in bad ways, I don't think the problem is with MBTI; I think those people are just shitheads.

DA

I get the feeling there are a lot of shitheads around, then. This could include the developers of the original test.

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless

I get the feeling there are a lot of shitheads around, then

I mean, yeah. Yes. There are. Welcome to the human race or whatever.

I have no idea what the MBTI letter soups even mean and do not care to find out. I trust Hogwarts houses more than MBTI, and at least I have an inkling what a person means when they say they're a Hufflepuff. Also they're at least a tiny bit nerdy/literary, unlike corporate MBTI bores.

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